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Advisors on the Move: Morgan Grabs $1B Team Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and other firms have been benefiting from defections from Barclays. But those firms werent the only winners in the competition for top talent. See these moves and more in our latest recruiting roundup.

There is the common belief among independent advisors that wirehouses are structured so that the client’s interest is often at stake. Bill Spalding, an independent advisor and founder of Bill Spalding Wealth Management, talks about his experience early in his career at a wirehouse, and the liberation he felt breaking away from it, and moving into an independent environment that was bias-free and client-oriented.